Tiraz with gold
1020–35
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Tiraz with gold, 1020–35. Egypt, Fatimid period, reign of Caliph al-Zahir, 1020–1035. Plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé; overall: 16.9 x 9.7 cm (6 5/8 x 3 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1982.109 The dominant gold ground of a tripartite band displays horned bovines with cloven hooves alternating with stylized palmette trees flanked by opposing lines of text on the dark blue linen ground. The historical inscription is written in kufic script with elongated bowls of the lower letters. The text and epigraphy indicate a date during the caliphate of al-Zahir (r. 1020–35).
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Textile
- Formatted Medium
- plain weave with inwoven tapestry weave: linen, silk, and gold filé
- Dimensions
- Overall: 16.9 x 9.7 cm (6 5/8 x 3 13/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Lower line (inverted): "[In] the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. There is no god but Allāh alone." Upper line: "[son of the imam al-Haki]m bi-amr-Allāh, Commander of the Faithful, God's benedictions."
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1982.109
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1982, Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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